Weather-strip



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11. L. GRANT. Weather-Strip.

Patented June 8, I880.

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MFETERS. PHOTO LITHOGRA WASHINGTON D C UNTTED STATES PATENT O FICE.

DANIEL L. GRANT, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

WEATHER-STRIP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 228,526, dated June 8,1880.

Application filed March 5, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL LEwIs GRANT, of the city and county ofPhiladelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented a certain newand useful Improvement in Weather- Strips, of which improvementthefollowingis a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide -a weather stripor pad Whichshall be of simple construction, reasonable price, and readily adaptableto use upon door and window frames; to which end my improvement consistsin the combination of a flexible inclosin g-case, a filling ofnon-conductin g material, and means for attachment to the door orwindow, as hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the icconipanying drawings, Figure l is a view, in perspective, of aportion of a weather-strip embodying my improvement; Fig. 2, atransverse section through the same, and Fig. 3 a similar section of thesame in position upon a door-frame.

To carry out my invention, I provide a rectangular strip of flexiblematerial, such as cotton or woolen fabric, gum cloth, leather, or otheranalogous material, which possesses flexibility, a smooth surface, and areasonable degree of durability. This strip may be two inches or more inwidth and of such length as is found most convenient, and, being sewedtogether at its sides, forms a tubular incl0Sing-. case, A, thelongitudinal seam of which serves as a convenient location for theattachments by which it is to be secured to the door or window framewhen the weather-strip is completed and desired to be put into use. Thecase A is then stuffed with a filling, B, of any suitable non-conducting1naterial-as, for eX-. ample, wool, cotton, flax, yarn, straw, hay,paper, hair, felt, or fur-care being taken that the filling shall not bepacked into the case A so hard as to render it unduly stiff orinflexible.

The case and filling constitute a flexible non-conducting weather-strip,which can be manufactured at a small cost, conveniently packed fortransportation, and readily connected to and removed from the frame of adoor or window. 4

As shown in the drawings, Fig. 3, the connection of the weather-strip tothe door-frame is effected by tacks (l, driven through the case Aadjacent to the seam and I have, further, devised certain specialattaching devices, neither of which, per 80, constitutes part of mypresent invention, and which need not therefore be herein described.

It will be seen that the filling ofnonconducting material gives the tubea fullness in shape, which causes it to bear against the surface of thedoor or window frame, and by its elasticity close the crevice much moreeffectually than can be done by a similar tube without a filling.

Iain aware. that similar tubes have been used without the filling, andsuch I do not claim as my invent-ion; but,

Having set forth the nature of my improvement, I claim as my inventionand desire to secure by Letters Patent As a new article of manufacture,a weather strip or pad consisting of a flexible tube or caseinclosing afilling of non-conducting 1n aterial and having a longitudinal marginadapted for attachment to a door or window frame, substantially as setforth.

I). LEWIS GRANT.

Witnesses;

J. SNowDEN BELL, Gno. A. VAILLANT.

